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Nairobi County has begun a comprehensive review of development controls and land-use zoning across some of its most affluent and high-growth neighbourhoods, with the first public participation forums scheduled for late September.
Civil society groups have lodged a formal appeal against the land-use approval that lets US technology company Equinix build a hyperscale data centre at King Air Industria in Cape Town, saying the impact on nearby communities, water and electricity was never properly assessed.
Buyers who want a court to compel a land seller to complete a transaction must first honour their own contractual obligations, Kenya's Court of Appeal has ruled in a dispute over a partially paid land purchase.
Two Customary Land Secretariats have been inaugurated in Sunyani in the Bono Region and Kwahu Obomeng in the Eastern Region to strengthen land documentation, with the Office of the Administrator of Stool Lands noting that about 80 per cent of Ghana's land is held under customary ownership.
Mombasa County has clarified that its directive on pre-mixed concrete applies only to construction sites without enough space to mix on site, while maintaining a ban on building materials spilling onto roads and walkways.
KADGIS says every land agent in Kaduna State will soon need a unique, non-transferable agent code as part of land administration reforms aimed at curbing property fraud and improving accountability.
A Special Investigating Unit probe has found that 208 municipal stands in Villa Liza township near Boksburg were fraudulently transferred into private hands using forged documents, with the properties valued at about R58 million.
The FCT Administration's Department of Land Administration has reconstituted its Alternative Dispute Resolution committee to mediate land disputes in Abuja and reduce reliance on prolonged litigation.
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has broken ground on a 259-hectare residential development in Mvurwi, Mashonaland Central, with initial allocations targeting more than 2,000 young beneficiaries.